Crime Statistics for Bexhill, Rother, East Sussex, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bexhill in September 2024. There were a total of 275 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	103
Violent Crime	68
Anti Social Behaviour	49
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	275

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bexhill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bexhill

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bexhill and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bexhill has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Sidley (0.88 miles)	409
Bexhill	275
Pebsham (1.86 miles)	208
Bulverhythe (2.48 miles)	64
Cooden (1.39 miles)	50
Little Common (1.39 miles)	25
Watermill (1.86 miles)	19
Gotham (1.96 miles)	10
Green Street (2.63 miles)	3
Russell’s Green (2.63 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Bexhill?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bexhill and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Sidley	141
Pebsham	119
Bexhill	68
Cooden	36
Bulverhythe	10
Little Common	9
Watermill	5
Gotham	4
Green Street	1
Russell’s Green	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bexhill?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bexhill to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bexhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bexhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bexhill is ranked #10.

#	Ward	Score
1	West St Leonards	76
2	Bexhill Central	69
3	Bexhill Sidley	68
4	Maze Hill	63
5	Bexhill Sackville	53
6	Bexhill St Stephens	44
7	Bexhill Old Town & Worsham	29
8	Bexhill Pebsham & St Michaels	21
9	Bexhill Collington	20
10	Bexhill Kewhurst	12
11	Bexhill St Marks	12

Which road in Bexhill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bexhill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Lake House Close.